Tag: General Bachelu
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The outset of the 1815 campaign, through French reports …
A couple of reports from the early stages of the 1815 campaign, starting with documentation from 15 June … Report from Marshal Ney to the major-général Soult. Gosselies, 15 June 1815, 11 o’clock in the evening. To His Excellency the Marshal major-général. MR. MARSHAL, I have the honour of reporting to Your Excellency that, in…
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General Rapp at the outset of the siege of Danzig (1813) …
From Smorgoni (Smarhonʹ – Smorgonʹ) in late 1812, Napoleon, at the time of his departure for France after the debacle in Russia, assessing with an experienced eye the precise extent of his reverses, had foreseen the siege of the Vistula places and had sent his intrepid aide-de-camp, General Rapp, to take over the government of…